New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-01

Those who take il for granted that the Western
hemisphere is the exclusive home Of newspaper
encruri,c do the orient of today great injustice
There is. for instance, in far away Tientsin,
wide awake and progressive journal which shared
the hrcathlc,s interest OF all English speaking
,coplc, whcrcsoc,er scattered. In the race between
the Volunteer and the Thistle. and noby rose to
the occasion We rccognir merit the moment We
see n and herewith reproduce for the benefit OF
our renders the entire contents Of our 1ientSin
contcmporary's extra edition describing the race
which was printed on one side Of u Piece OF
paper - by inches in size:
LATEST TEIEGRAMS
TtNr-lN. sofa september l777
POLITICAL NEWS
I"SnoS 2Ih september. l-7
An excursion craft mpcdcd tho Thistle out and
homo Tho l. d fsat sled ana suspects tha' heE
bottom ha, been doctored
just why the noble sport Of yachting should
Doe cr.icd political news" does not apn'ar ana
the London correspondent does not think it
necessary 10 state that the Volunteer won; but
the excursion craft" and the "doctorcd bottom
are immor,allzcd, and presumably Tie Nentsin
public asked for nothing more
In one OF our public schools - Ter cent Of the
children have been found to be unvaccinat"d'
Stricter rules concerning this matter are obviously
much needed.
President Cleveland has given another illuStra-
lion Of his BOGUS devotion 20 civil Service reform
hv rcmovin, James H. Mastcn from the Post
ma.ter,hip Of Cohoes, Mr.. Masten, who is
brotbcrin-law Of the late President Arthur. has
in every respect proved good and faithful public
servant Ills character is above reproach his
MANAGEMENT Of the postofi", has won him the
praise alike Of POLITICAL friends and political oppo
ncnts His head falls in the basket simply because
he is Republican and his place was wanted Tor
an earnest Democrat
The temperature in this vicinity fell about 40
between last Sunday afternoon and Tuesday morn
inc So creat and abrupt q fall usually occurs
here only once or twice n year. 1t is worth
noticing that the point from which this plunge
occurred was 81 above the normal for the CLOSING
DAYS Of November; that two-thrds OF 1t WAS
mercy a recovery from unreasonable heat more
marked instance Of the kind WAS the dip last
April. from 34s above tho proper level for that
time TO only c. below These cases are IN
marked contrast with the change Of February
1911. 1885, when the mercury started from
point only l3' above the normal ana went 81
below Whatever the future may have in store
therefore thus far this fall we have not had any
really rigorous chill. Up In the Northwest how
ever the cold experienced since last Saturday has
hccn parallccd. at this stage OF the season, only
t,vicc IN sixteen wears At Fort Benton, In 1875,
Tho ,bcrmomctcr registered 80 below zero and in
1850 Fort Assinibono rcrortcd 2J' below. AZ
Fort Buford last Monday the mercury reached
2Go General Grccys Signal Corps gave us fair
notice of this particular blizzard. But with moro
oxl.tienced and trained Indications officers. kept
in place from year to year regardless of Reform
Administrations the business of predicting the
weather might make great progress with the aid
of rapidly extending telegraph systems. Demo
cratic reform, however. marches backward in
weather reporting n in everything else, and II is
officially admitted that. because OF changes for
poitical reasons in many Of the subordinate Offices
the predictions Of the Signal Service have been
erroneous during the past year In q much greater
proportion of cases than in previous years.
Paul Hines, tho gifted baseball professional. is
reported rs asserting that no money could hire
him TO play in tho indianapolis club. That
settles indianapolis A dis atch stating that she
has gone into the hands OF o receiver with the
flag Of her manifest destiny at half mast may
be looked for any moment
Some one suggests that Mr.. Carlisle shall namc
the carriage horses he has just been purchasing
Randall" and Morrison" If he should do SO
the rabid free tradcrs would DO dissatisfied. For
whatever their opinion of Morrison, they claim
that Randall is, politically speaking. an ass. And